Word: lampooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trustees of the Lampoon had decided to do nothing, the problem would have been handed back to University Hall, which would probably have taken measures within its jurisdiction...
There can be no doubt that under some circumstances disciplinary action is justifiable. If the Advocate or the CRIMSON should deliberately misrepresent fact, the College must possess protection. If the Lampoon should fail to keep within moral limits, which are its standard, the College must again have protection...
...Scaife was the only Lampoon representative with whom College officials had dealings...
Whether the punishment of the officers of the Lampoon and the padlocking of their building in this particular instance was justifiable, depends upon the spirit in which the parody issue was written. If it had as its purpose the satirizing of what was considered an extravagant, puerile magazine, its outdoing of Esquire should not be considered smut. But if the issue was put out for the purpose of filling the coffers of the Lampoon, the administration would not deserve condemnation...
From the tangled web of conflicting stories which surround the closing of the Lampoon Building Monday, there emerged yesterday a fairly clear and logical sequence of accurate facts...